All arts aspire to the condition of music.
Painting: Lake Abstract II
All arts aspire to the condition of music.
- Walter Pater
Music communicates in ways beyond that which can be expressed in words. As artists we search for a means to communicate what we sense but cannot explain, images glimpsed through a fog of shifting shapes, half-understood, pregnant with unknown meaning.
We search for the thing that is searching for us.
That search is the thread running through Zen and Taoist creative practice: not mastery of technique, but a willingness to remain inside the question.
The Tao Te Ching Journal: A Path To Inner Quiet
Zen Mountain Journal blends Taoist hermit poetry, contemplative art, and reflections drawn from a lifetime shaped by wilderness, solitude, and decades doing creative work on the outer boundaries of our culture. These journals are companions for seekers — guides in the reconnection with inner quiet, beauty, and the “soundless music” of a life lived with simplicity and meaning.
• Size: 9.25 × 8.5 inches — convenient size for desk or lap.
• Hardcover — the book can be written in without a table or desk.
• Double wire-o bound to lay flat.
• Printed on Mohawk Superfine, a premium uncoated paper for a beautiful writing surface.
• 160 pages.
